Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 February 1887 — Page 4

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TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 19, 1867

IT is reported that the number of idiots in the United States increased from 34, 527 in ]H7 t) 76,895 in 1880. What is the matter with the American people?

JAY GOTJM) is said to be writing a book on railroads. Doubtless it will contain recipes for the best methods of wrecking them, in which Jay is himself an expert

TIIK best thing that could possibly happen to Gov. Foraker's Presidential boom would be the muzzling of some of some of his indiscreet friends who talk too much.

THKY appear to have given up the no tion of reducing the surplus at the present session of Congress. The fact is if it holds out two weeks longer it will be doing pretty well.

Tin: Knights of I/abor have purchased a $05,000 building in Philadelphia for use as thoir general headquarter?*. There Is no safor investment for the Knights or anybody else than good real estate.

TIIK resignation of Secretary Manning makes the first break in Mr. Cleveland cabinot. As the term is half out this is not doing badly. Nor would Mr. Manning probably have gone but for the fact of his poor healthy

SMITH WKKD, a noted Democratic politician of New York, predicts that Mr. Cleveland does not want a second term. Mr. Weed is perhaps the only person in some flftj' millions who entertains such an opinion.

KEN BUTLKII guesses that tho Democrats will not elect the next President. Perhaps Benjamin thinks the Labor party will elect him. Any way, he is nobody's fool and his political guesses arc liable to bo as reliable as anybody's.

WHATEVEU Mr. Julian Hawthorne may lack, and it is a good deal, he is certainly not wanting in "cheek." In a recent article ho declared that books written by women, with three or four exceptions, are never worth reading, in any profound sense of the word. And pray how many of Mr. Hawthorne's books are worthy of a profound reading?

IMPROV ED methods of ear-heating are tho order of tho day. The Northern Pacific railroad is experimenting with an Icon car designed to supply heat, light and water to passenger trains. It will be attached to the engine. Other experi ments in the direction of improving the comfort and safety of passenger cars are being made which bid fair to result in substantial progress.

A TAiiKATivK friend of Gov. Foraker, volunteers the information that the Governor has the White House in his mind's eye and expects certainly to live in it somo day. It may be that he will, but hero to fore tho men who most expected to live in the White House were precisely tho one's who never did live tliore. Gov. Foraker has too much senso to talk like this but unfortunately a wise man may have foolish friends.

ANIMATKP by the example of Now York, Chicago is preparing to get after her boodlcrs. Tt is about lime. No city in the country has suffered so disgracefully at tho hands of plundering rings and thieving gangs and the city and county both have bankrupt treasuries as the result of it. While they are about it tho Chicago people should bag Carter Harrison and send him muxzled to private life.

TIIK Senate at least is determined to have ships, guns and coast defences. In addition to the two bills recently passed, appropriating *21,000,000 for guns, armer and fortilloations, it this week passed the Cameron bill for ten new cruisers and the Hale bill for th* construction of coast defense vessels, gunboats and tor-pedo-boats. The present indications are that very little of this legislation will get through the House.

Bit AnsTKKKrr's estimates the total losses from strikes in this country since Jan. 1, ns follows: Wages lost by strikes, $2,050,000. Wages lost by employes thrown out of work by strikes of fellow-work-men, $W0,000. Losses to trade, etc., $4,2so,ito0. Total, fT,2s«,000. And only oneeighth of the year has yet passed. If this rate Is kept up throughout the year lasses from strikes will amount to the enormous sggr.»g*te of d0,000,000. This would almost pay the pension roll of the country and is a terrible tax upon the labor and commence of the nation. It Is about time the strike foolishness were abandoned.

AIVORWNU to a Washington correspondent there will be only one Union Major-General In the next Senate, Hawlev. of Connecticut, while there will be ftveCVmfederate Major-Genermi,C\lquitt, Walthall,Hansom, Butler and Hamptou. liowen of Colorado aud Manderson of Nebraska are brevet Union brigadiergenerals, while Morgan and Glbeon were rt*l rebel brigadier*. The other veterans In the next Senate will 1* Col. Quay of the Union, and Colonels Blackburn, George, Vane* and Harris of the Confederate army Lleutenant-OoloneU In galls, plumb and Blair of the North Major IMntel of tho South and Brevet-Major

Spooner of the North Judge-Advocate Ejustis, Captains Coke and Riddleberger, Lieutenants Pugh and Berry, and Privates James K. Jones and Kenna of the South. That is to say, of twenty-seven soldiers in the next Senate only eight fonght for the Union while nineteen fought against it. The ''Solid South" has no reason to be dissatisfied with her political progress.

So long as the government collects something like a hundred millions year more than is needed for its current expenditures, there will be lavish and senseless extravagance in the way of pension, river and harbor and other bills of all sorts. Manifestly the proper thing to do is to cut down the taxes but that is the very thing Congress seems unable to do. It is clear now that nothing will be done this session, as nothing was done lastand if the President should summon an extra session of the new Congress it is very doubtful if any agreement upon the matter could be reached. The Democrats have so far failed to do the very thing which they most faithfully prom ised they would do.

THE veto of the bill providing for the free distribution of se?ds to the Texas drouth sufferers should clear the President of the charge of favoritism towards tho South. Here was a bill which a Democratic House and a Republican Senate had passed and which he could have approved without exciting the least unfavorable comment in any quarter. To veto it seems like an act of needless unkindness to the unfortunate people of a large district. But Mr. Cleveland finds no warrant in the constitution for such an expenditure and conscientiously vetoes the bill suggesting that the charitable impulses of the people, if their attention is properly called to the mat*ter, will cheerfully relieve the necessities of the drouth sufferers. There is a good deal to admire in the pluck and conscientiousness of an act like this.-:

SAM JONES.

When Sam Jones, the eccontric Georgia evangelist, wa& stirring up the people of tho South with his uncouth eloquence and religious fervor, his style was severely criticised and there were certain news papers in the North which declared that the evangelist could not succeed in the intelligent communities of the North. The Mail then expressed the contrary opinion which events have fully justified.

In Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Paul and other northern cities Sam Jones and his co-worker Si Small, have created quite as much excitement in religious circles as attended their efforts in the South Even cold and cultured Boston has succumbed to their efforts and for a month past lias witnessed a remarkable religi ous demonstration. The size of their audiences has only been limited by the capacity of the building in which their meetings have been held. The sermons of, Jones have been heard with great interest, frequently calling forth laughter and applause.

As to the permanent valne of the work of the revivalists, that is entirely another matter and one upon which there is wide diversity of opinion. Undoubtedly many who attend their meetings do so from motives of curiosity and many others regard them in the light of au entertainment. The point here made is simply that human nature is much the same the world over and what will succeed in one place will succeed in another.

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BIG VETO.

Tho President is being severoly criticised in certain quarters for his veto of tho dependent pension bill, but much of tho fault-finding, most of it in fact, comes from those who wish to make party capital out of it. We believe that when the matter is fully and impartially considered thougliful men of all parties will be more inclined to praise than to blame the President for his action.

There is a general feeling that the pension business has gone for enough. Tho Government is now paying out *75,000,000 a year to pensioners, a heavy tax upon the productive iudustry of the country. How much this bill would have added it is hard to say, but it has been estimated that it would have added nearly as much more.

But that Is not all. The principle of the bill was not such as has characterized previous pension legislation, that of recompensing the soldier for disabilities incurred in the service of his country. Its effect would have been in reality simply a transference of part of the burden of pauperism from the local to the general Government. Pensions have never been granted upon such a theory and they ought not to lie. The Mexican pension bill might also have been well vetoed, and as the latter will result in giving pensions to many who fought in tho Confederate army the President's approval of it subjects him to the charge of favoring the South. The proper thing would have been to veto both bills.

POINTS THAT ARE SETTLED. The labor question is ene of the most important now engaging public attention. Evidently it has come to stay until there is some rational solution of it, The workingmen themselves are not able to agree upon any line of action, bat this Is not against them. It merely shows that they are thinking for themselves and when men think there are always differences of opinion among them.

Bat oat of all the talk, thought and action some things are getting to be pretty clear. One of these Is that a thousand workmen who have no grievance of their own have no right to paralyse business by a ruinous strike because a few other men are dissatisfied with the terms of their employment. Such a policy Is alike disastrous, because it entails heavy tomes upon both.

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

It is equally clear that the members of a labor union have no right to hinder other men from working for whom and upon what terms they may choose. This is the right of ever free citizen.

There is no objection or opposition to intelligent labor organization, which is desirable and beneficial. But its ends must be lawful and be lawfully pursued. Intelligent workingmen are coming to these conclusions as well as other men and are refusing to throw down their tools at the dictation of any Master Workman who may choose to order a strike.

These points settled, the workingmen of the country and others capable of aiding them in their struggle, can think out new lines upon which to make lawful contest for their rights.

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THE EVIIjS OF NIGHT WORK AND !^i" LATE AMUSEMENTS. 4.4

SOCIAL DISSIPATIONS AT NIGHT—ALL. MEN AT NIOIIT AUK PIGS—A BROAD SICE AT MIDNIGHT SUPPERS—NoMAN

SHOULD SEE TIIE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT OUT or His BED EXCEPT WHEN NECESSITY CALLS. Correspondence of Saturday Evening Mall

BROOKLYN, Feb. 16,18S7.

As a general thing men can control their time, and the time for study and for work is the day, while the time for social recreation and rest is at night The general rule, though there may be occasional exceptions to it, for every young man and every young maiden enteriug life is: Do your work in the daytime do not turn yourself into student a night. The practice has some charms, because we read in history and in literature about the midnight oil. remember, saying in a sermon once, and w*hich I now here repeat, that the worst oil that a man ever burned was midnight oil. It wastes society. It not only induces artificial excitement during that late hour just preceding sleep, which makes sleep less wholesome, less nutritive, but in every way deranges a man's habit.

If a minister 'studies late Saturday night, or if he works late at night during all the week, you may be perfectly sure that he cannot be a robust, wholesome man all round. I can defect the tendencies induced by habitual night work. And, although the night, when everything is still, is the only working time for hard-run professional men, frequent ly, yet working^t night is always perlild never be resorted to ce between evils, even instances. dgments formed at night are never so solid and fresh as judgments formed in the morning. If in the morning a man is despondent, if he is dull, if he is without charity, if he is unnerved, you may be sure that he is livingwrong. For the order of nature is, that-ft man should rise from his bed in the morning as birds rise, singing, and in perfect health. A man rises buoyant, and has his best hours in the early day. For although perhaps the fancy may not be so brilliant in the early day, the judgment is better. The conclusions and determinations which a man forms in early day are apt to be sounder and safer than those which he forms at night. Fancy for the night, judgment for the day. And I would say to every young person whom it concerns, form, if it is a possible thing, the habit of doing your study in the daytime, and reserve your nights for lighter tasks, and keep early hours with your bed. You do not profit (I do not care who your exemplar is) by departing from the great influences and laws of nature. There is many and many a man that wears out prematurely, because, without one single unvirtuous or vicious habit, he grinds his life out by night work.

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I also protest against tIieJuse of night for social pleasures to the extent which, in cities and in fashionable circles especially, it is prostituted. Pleasures, even within moral bounds, are not wholesome in the untimely hours of night. The turning of night into day, the creation of artificial lights, the use of tho day again, amidst all its glare and din of excitements, for sleep—these things are not wholesome. They are not wholesome either to the body or to the soul.

Men laugh at the old-fashioned New England customs of going out to tea at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, getting home at 7 in the evening, and going to bed at 9 but the men that that'eustom made were not to be laughed at. The men that are wearing out are city men. It seldom happens that city men breed strong men. For the city, like the grindstone, takes off the edge and the very steel from the sword, and the country has to send in its new men all the time. No city could perpetuate its power and maintain its influence if it were not for the continual recuperation of its populations by the transmission of country-bred men, who have kept right hours and observed wholesome natural laws. They come in to make up for the waste and consumption that arise from city practices.

Now, it is not wrong in the same sense that burglary is wrong for a person to go to entertainments at 10 o'clock at night but it is wrong. At 10 o'clock the festival begins, and by 12 or 1 o'clock it is at its height. And then comes the infernal feeding. And all men at nifht are pigs. At any rate, my observation of the bibulous and gustatory habits of men away from home, with curious viands, is such that I cannot but feel that the lower nature gets the ascendancy.

Have you ever seen men on a steamboat, where the table was spread, stand around the door ready to make a plunge and a rush for the table the moment an opportunity was given? Have you seen how men at parties take pains to get the most favorable situations at the table?

Have you seen how men stretch and lean over in order that they may fare the best? Men, too, that are well fed at home, and that do not seem to need any special feeding—have you seen how they gormandize, how they stuff and fill and forget everything but to eat, and eat right and left and eat something of everything, and this at 12 or 1 o'clock at night? And good men they are—deacons, elders, class-leaders, ministers—all good men! But when a man leaves his home at 10 o'clock at night to go out for amusement and takes his second supper at 1 or 2 o'clock, what would you expect of him but vhat he should make everything consistent, and the whole abominable mess a violation of natural law? And in the world of fashion they keep this unnatural excitement up to most absurd extents. By 2, or 3, or 4 o'clock they begin to go home, and then they retire. About the time they ought to get up they go to bed. Now comes the restless sleep of the forenoon. And then, about 10 or 11 o'clock, dreary and headachy and desponding, they get up most dolefully to talk about their enjoyments!

The old fables say that there were creatures—salamanders—that could live in fire. I believe it. For I have seen persons, men and women, that lived in a round of parties nearly every night for ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty forty, fifty, sixty years until they were perfectly drained, perfectly used up, and had to go to Saratoga or Newport to get over pleasure. They had enjoyed themselves so much that they wore all run down. Their energies were all wasted. Their vitality was all gone. Thoir nerves were unstrung. Their digestion was impaired. Their whole system was marked for disease.

And consider what a disreputable thing this is. Consider what a use it is of one's refinement, civilization, wealth, social position to make them the instruments for destroying his body, ruining his nerves, taxing and racking and draining his system, and going on every single winter in this preposterous conversion of night into day and day into night. Talk about a thief being wicked —a man that is habitually practicing such violence, although he does not sin against society, sins against the laws of God in his own body and will have a day-of-judgment account to give for it. It is an abomination before God and ought to be an abomination before every decent person, A

These dancings and feastings and fooleries at night, besides being wicked on on the ground of the waste of time, are utterly unpardonable as being a sin against health and against the functions of life for which men were created of God. Did he create man to be a thistle down? Were women born to be butterflies? Were human beings made to be mere triflers? Is there nothing for themselves,'nothing for mankind, nothing for the glory of God, that is to try and task their energies in this life? If they are so using themselves, or prostituting themselves, as to turn day into night and night into day, there will be a burning account for them to render by and by There is many and many a dissipated one that will suffer retribution, not only for indulgence in disallowable things, but for indulgence in allowable things in disallowable hours. yj

The day is the time for work, and the night is the time for rest. Night for home or, if it is to be used for the purposes of social enjoyment, then it should be used with regard to timely hours. And no man ought to see the middle of the night out of his bed, unless he is called out by works of necessily or of morality. A man should violate Sunday quicker than tho 12 o'clock hour. It is well to be in bed at 10 clock 'f\ ^...:.w

Hour nights could be shortened at one end and lengthened at the other it would be better for us. (Jet up early breakfast early work early. Use the day for the works of the day, and the night for works of recuperation and not for works of darkness.

I HENRY \VART8 BKfcrrtEn.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

If New York courts keep on there will be a quorum of ex-aldermen at Sing Sing at each roll-call. rr

Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is said to be a hopeless invalid, and he will never be able to even return .from Florida.

Governor Oglesby, while in New York, advised General Sherman to return to St. Louis. He disliked to see Western men settling in New York.

George L. Perkins, of Norwich, Conn., aged 98 years, is the only survivor of the party which accompanied Fnlton on his first experimental steamboat trip in 1807.

When a Grand Rapids society belle marries the papers of that city publish her portrait and that of her dog. The groom cuts no figure in the report.

Henry Edwards, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., went to the Salvation Army barracks to scoff, and la the midst of his blasphemy was stricken blind. The Salvation people say it was the wrath of God. The physician says it is a most remarkable

Mark Twain is said to have a million dollars safely invested in such a way that be can't be taxed a red cent on it, and his wife can't marry again if he dies and enjoy a dollar of it. He isn't funny any more. He doesn't have to be.

The Rev. W. M. Smith, of Cleveland, told his congregation last Sunday that ten minutes of boxing with soft gloves

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a most excellent recreation, and be was not sure hut there were times when a little science in self-defense was to be desired.

At the inquest following the sudden death of Henry Jos*, of St. Louis, his wife testified that for eighteen yean "he had been full." It was a day to be re-

membered when he was sober. He be gan drinking whisky in the morning and kept it up all day. He never ate but one meal a day, and that was supper, and he ate very little at that meal. He lived on whisky, till at last it burned the life out of him.

A gentleman crossing one of the muddy streets of Boston, says the Globe, had one of his overshoes sucked off. As he had neither time nor the opportunity to grapple for it, or have the spot where it sank properly dragged by a scavenger, he cast its mate away. "Sometime in the spring," he continued, "when the seasen shall break up the two shoes will probably be recovered, and together may do some one a service in the future." The Globe points to the incident as a fine example of Boston philosophy and philanthrophy walking hand in hand. ,*r

WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SA YING.

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The Judge: De han'somest shoe git down at de heel. Philadelphia Times: The man who knows the most never tells it in a crowd.

St. Paul Herald: There is no place like home, especially if it's the home of your best girl.

The Judge: When you lot a beggar fill his basket he, swears because he hasn't a bigger one. .v

Texas Siftings: Right wrongs no man though it depends something on what you write.

Boston Courier: In old times parents brought children up, but now children bring parents down.

New Haven News: Naomi was 580 years old when sho got married. Truly the Bible is a great consoler.

Boston Traveller: Good resolutions may shape the future, but they can not undo the work of the past. "t

Holland (Mass.) Transcript': It is easier to be a workingman's advocate than it is to join the ranks of labor.

Kentucky State Journal: There's no danger of the young man who goes to see his girl striking for shorter hours.

Washington Republican: Even in Licking County, Ohio, it.is proposed to to dispense with flogging in schools.

New Albany Ledger: If the pension list continues to grow, who will be left to pay the taxes

Texas Siftings The only way for a public man to suence calumny is to die. Minneapolis Tribune: It is about time to tear down the Ice Palace and begin advertising St. Paul as a bananna-belt summer resort again.

York Dispatch: It may be that a man can love but one woman in a lifetime, but if he doesn't get married too early he can have lots of fun trying to find out which woman it is that he can love.

Life: Do not be disouraged because the man behind you has to change his seat. You are as sweetly pretty, darling, and can see the stage just as well as if he were still there.

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AN ACTHESSTS REQ UIREMENTS.

[Georgia Cay van, in Brooklyn Magazine.] The requirements for young women who wish to adopt the stage are serious and potent factors in one's career. Talent is always appreciated when it has its opportunity of genius there is no question but even with great talent the absence of what is termed stage appearance 1 is almost fatal. For this reason many girls obtain access to the stage who are^ magnificently endowed w?ithall require- I ments save one—talent but although these endowments are most grateful at times, and add much to our pleasure, a mere prettiness becomes tiresome, and their coign of vantage is not great.

I cannot do better, in speaking of requirements, than to revive a list sent to a young woman by a clever far Western critic, which is the shortest and most complete lecture on the stage that could, perhaps, be found. One only might be added—this: The patience to read calm ly in the papers everything and anything of a personal nature to yourself, which may be far from the bounds of exactness, and to know with infinite philosophy that these easily believed reports will be copied throughout the Union, and yet never to be betrayed into refutation.

Our Westerner advises' these equipments:

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A strong physique. An unimpaired digestion.

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A slender figure. A marked face. Strong features. A carding voice. A luck of real feeling. An abundance of pretended feeling. Much magnetism. Great fascination of manner. Purity of speech. Elocution to a degroo. A general knowledge of history. A good general education. A general knowledge of costuming. A practical knowledge of economy in dress.

An artistic knowledge of the effects of distance. Considerable business faculty.

Unflagging industry. Utter lack of sensitiveness. A capacity for taking pains. An absolute and undisputed devotion to the theatre.

An unwedded life. An ability to distinguish criticism from abuse or fulsome gusli. ic

A readiness to profit thereby. Some genius of advertising. A quickness at seizing opportunities. An adeptness at making yourself necessary.

A well-defined specialty. A good memory. Good luck. Quick stud v.,, Taleut.

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